Garment hanger



March 14, 1933. J. RINK 1,901,777

GARMENT HANGER Filed June 20, 1932 ?atented Mar. 14, 1933 c UNl'l'EE STAYLEE ROSS J. RINK, 033' STAPLES, MINNESOTA GARMENT HANGER Application filed June 20, 1932. Serial No. 618,325.

This invention relates to garment hangers bore 1 and 4 when the device is in use. Enand has for its object the provision of a gaged through the coils 3 and 5 are hanger hanger which may be easily attached to or loops 7 which, as shown most clearly in Figs. removed from a garment and which will 2 and 3, are substantially triangular in con-' 5 furnish a firm support f r the garment when tour, the apexes of the triangles being in- U engaged over a coat hook or other device. verted and engaged through the respective The invention is illustrated in the accoincoils while the bases of the triangles are repanying drawing and consists in certain novel ceived within hems or folds 8 the ends of features which will be hereinafter fully disa strap 9 which may be of cloth, leather or 10 closed. other material. By lapping the ends of the 55 In the drawing, Fig. 1 is an elevation of strap around the bases of the triangular my improved garment hanger showing it aphangers and securing the ends, as indicated,

plied to the collar portion of a garment. v by rivets or other fasteners 10, the strap will Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of beheld in a flat-condition so that it may be I Fig. 1. readily engaged over a peg or hook upon a 50 Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of rack or tree. Fig. 1. The device is very light and may be read- In carrying out the invention there is proily applied to any garment. When toe garvided an attaching pin which is constructed ment is outworn and discarded, the hanger V from a single strand of wire bent so as to may be removed and readily applied to some 5 define a piercing member 1 having a pointed other garment or, if desi *ed, it may be deend, as shown at 2, adapted to penetrate the tached and applied to the arment only when fabric of the garment collar. t the end the latter to be suspended, thereby avoidof the piercing member 1, remote from the ing any possible discomfort to the wearer of V point 2, the wire or light rod is formed into the garment. The device may, of course, 70 a coil 3 and from the coil an upper member be made in various sizes so as to be adapted 4 extends in the same 'eneral direction as to the size, weight 1 material of all garthe piercing member 1. At a point adjaments. cent the pointed tip 2, the strand 4: is formed Having thus described the invention, I into a second coil 5 from which de )11lS a claim '15 hook 6 in which the point 2 may be engaged 1. A. garment hanger comprising agarafter it has passed through the fabric of a merit-engaging member having a piercing garment collar, as will be understood upon portion and a keeper portion to retain the reference to Fig. 1, the hook 6 constituting piercing portion in engagement with a gara keeper for the point 2 so that it a i ment, a keeper hook depending from the locked in engagement with the fabric of the keeper portion, a brace forming a connecgarment and will be held close to the fabric tion between the keeper hook and keeper so that it will not subject the wearer of the portion, hanger loops engaged with the gargarment to any discomfort. The hook 6 merit-engaging member, and a strap at- 1 is provided with a round end by doublin tached to and extending between the loops. 8 the strand, as at 12, and then continuh 2. A garment hanger comprising a gar- Wire upward, as at 16, to te i ate in an merit-engagin member of integral construceye 17 encircling the upper member l. tion including a piercing member having a Sharp corners are thus avoided and a brace poin ed end and a keeper member connected a5 is provided to prevent spreading of the memwith the piercing member at one end by a 39 coil and provided with a second coil adjacent the pointed end of the piercing member and a keeper hook depending from the second coil and engaged with the end of the piercing member hanger loops of triangular form engaged through the coils of the garmentengaging member, and a suspending strap having its ends lapped around the bases of the respective loops, the extremities of the strap being secured to the intermediate portion of the same at the inner sides of the loops.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ROSS J. RINK. [L. s.] 

